“That's self-inflicted damage in congressional districts like mine and the ones we need to do well in,” she said.

Bustos also said her team had conducted polling in her district that shows Trump’s popularity ratings are not “underwater.”

“People are still willing to give him a shot,” she said. “The only way I can get something done is to work across the aisle and have ideas I can get my friends on the Republican side to be agreeable with me on.”